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Picked up the new Harry Potter<\/a> book at the library today. Read the first two chapters on the bus ride home. Felt like blogging it. Didn\u2019t want to \u201cspoil\u201d anything for those who check the blog\u2019s main page on a regular basis. Decided I would try something new. Any comments I make about the book will be posted not as \u201cupdates\u201d to this post, but as \u201ccomments\u201d, which are hidden from the main page. So if you click on \u201ccomments\u201d, be prepared for spoilers galore. But I\u2019ll break \u2019em down and line \u2019em up by chapter, so if you\u2019re part-way through the book and want to see what I think of just the first half-dozen chapters or so, then it shouldn\u2019t be too hard to avoid reading spoilers from the rest of the book.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"